Improvement in corw-htjskers



vHENRY-L. HALL, OF WOODBRIDGE, IOWA.

Leners Pate/m Nassnoe, daad April o, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-HUSKERS.

Tha Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the-lam.

To all whom 'it 'ma/y concern Beit known that I, HENRYL. HALL, of Woodbridge, in the county of Cedar, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Means for Husking Corn; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construe,- tion and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specication, and tothe letters and figures of reference markedY It consists, mainly, in providing a species of leather glove for the thumb and-two ngers of the right hand, andfor the thumb of the left hand, upon which I adjust metallic claws of a novel form, and so arranged as to enable the operator to strip the-husk from the corn with great rapidity, and Without vinjury to the hands themselves.

The glove `for. the right hand is represented placed on the hand onfig. 2. It is of strong leather, and is fastened securely by means of a button on the wristband a.

Inside the thumb I attach the claws c, constructed in the form shown, Vand upon the nger I adjust the claws s. This linger for the glove is made sufdciently large to hold the rst and second finger, and it is fastened or sewed by a leather cord, in such manner that the cord is passed through holes cut in tbe leather, and may be loosened or tightened at will, to the' end of increasing or diminishing the size of said glove-nger.

For the left hand I do not iind it necessary to construct a glove-finger, but I form a cot for the thumb of the left hand, of the form 'shown on iig. 1,- and ax thereon the metallic claws s, securing said cot to the wrist .by a button upon the Wristband, as represented.

These devices enable the operator to strip the husk from the corn with great rapidity, while at the same' timethey protect the hands from being cut, worn, or blistered by the sharp dry edges of the husks.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure .by Letters Pateut,vi'sv The protecting-glove and cot herein described, in combination with the claws s, when the same are constructed in the form, and combined and arranged in the manner herein specified.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY L. HALL.

Witnesses T. G. MCCLELLAND, WM. M; MAY. 

